I had this very annoying problem with VmWare Fusion 6. Running Windows 8.1 as a guest, the cursor was not visible. When I drag the mac cursor towards the Windows 8.1 window, it disappeared. If I pressed ctrl + cmd I found the location, but could not click on any icons within Windows 8.

This seams to be a problem for us VmWare customer since at least version 5. After reading forums I found this link and I did the following:

Now it works from time to time. If i’m not interacting with the Windows environment for sometime the cursor is not visible anymore. Then I have to shut down the Windows VM and kill VmWare Fusion and start over.

After downloading the RDP client from the Mac App Store I signed on with my Microsoft Id. An invitation was presented and I accepted and started a new session. Basically this is a remote session using a Microsoft RDP client connection to a virtual machine running Windows Server 2012 R2 on Azure.

Login to the RemoteIE session.

The logon took some time before an Internet Explorer window became visible.

The performance was quite good for casual web surfing.

It’s even possible to use RemoteIE for playing Youtube videos with acceptable frame rate and with good sound.

Youtube video via RemoteIE

Main usage for this service is probably going to be for developers and testers testing future versions of IE without having the latest bits installed locally. This is great for Mac or Linux users who would like to test against IE.

There is a drawback, sessions idle after 10 minutes and can only last for 60 minutes.

Its possible to use FTP to access diagnostics logs in Windows Azure websites.

FTP diagnostic logs url

When using FTP to access your Azure website, it’s important that the provided credentials is in the right format. The format you should supply is like this: site_name\your_username. Only user and password won’t work.